There are some great web services out there, but many of them are made even better by paying for "premium" plans that will make the service a lot better. Of course, not everyone is really willing to shell out their own money for the extra features, which makes them perfect for gifting. Here are some of our favorite web services that you can hand out as gifts this holiday season.

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Note: Giving a digital download isn't exactly the most extravagant gift, so we put together nice images for each app on this list that you can provide along with the download/serial number/whatever. Just right-click on any image to save a larger version. In addition, most of these are monthly subscriptions, so you can gift them however you like. Giving someone a few months or a year of a service is a great gift that you can tweak for your budget, and leave yourself room for the same gift next year if they really like it. If a service doesn't offer a gift option, you can always use a prepaid credit card and give it to them for use with the service you're gifting.

Subscriptions Under $5 a Month

Crashplan+

Everyone should back up their computer, and while they can always back up to an external drive, that's not going to save their bacon in a fire or other natural disaster. While your friends or family might think they're fine with an external drive, you can show them how important offsite backup is with an inexpensive subscription to CrashPlan+, our favorite automated online backup tool. It works on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, and can back up to an external drive and to CrashPlan's servers. You can get a cheap subscription for $1.50 a month, which will get you 10GB of space—more than enough for certain family members. However, if they have a lot of data, you might want to go unlimited for $3.00 a month instead.

LastPass Premium

It's no secret that we love LastPass here at Lifehacker. It saves all your passwords for you on any browser or OS, can help you create stronger passwords, and even import your passwords from other password apps. The premium version—available for a mere $1 a month—gives you mobile access to your passwords, so it's perfect for the friends and family addicted to browsing on their smartphones. You also get more secure multifactor authentication with a USB thumb drive or YubiKey, not to mention an ad-free experience and priority support from the LastPass team. While you're at it, you might also consider grabbing it bundled with Xmarks Premium for $20 a year (see below).

Xmarks Premium

Another great service for the intrepid mobile web user, Xmarks Premium boosts the great bookmark-syncing Xmarks service by bringing it to iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. You'll also get a longer backup history, meaning you can view, restore, or export old bookmark collections beyond 3 months. Open tab sync also comes to mobile devices with Xmarks Premium, which is probably the marquee feature here. With open tab sync you can take any page you were reading on your desktop, seamlessly open it on your mobile device, and keep browsing without skipping a beat. And, like LastPass Premium, you get priority support, and a discounted price if you buy them both together (see above).

Subscriptions Under $10 a Month

TripIt Pro

For the globetrotters among your friends, TripIt is a great service that organizes your travel itinerary automatically via email. It can even comb your Gmail account for incoming confirmation emails and automatically add them to your TripIt home page, which you can access via the web or a mobile app and see everything related to your trip—flight numbers, flight times, the kind of aircraft, and even important phone numbers. TripIt Pro adds instant alerts for flight delays, cancellations, and other changes, not to mention finding alternate flights, tracking frequent flyer miles, and more. It even includes a free 1-year membership to Hertz #1 Club Gold and Regus Gold for extra travel privileges.

Amazon Prime

Whether your friend is a compulsive shopper, a movie and TV nut, or glued to their Kindle, Amazon Prime makes a great gift. Not only do you get free 2-day shipping on tons of Amazon items (on its own a great perk), but you also get instant streaming of movies and TV from Amazon Prime's Instant service, as well as access to thousands of Kindle books through the Amazon Prime Lending Library. You can only grab a year's subscription at a time, so you'll have to pay for it all up front—but your friend or family member will thank you.

Netflix

Netflix is your favorite service for web video, and it's easy to see why. Netflix has a great selection of movies and TV shows for instant streaming, and is available on a ton of devices from video game consoles to TVs to Blu-Ray players and other set-top boxes. Plus, you can beef up your subscription with a DVD-by-mail service that puts others to shame. If you know any friends or family members that are still renting at Blockbuster, grab them a year of Netflix for only $7.99 a month. Alternatively, you can grab them a different service like Hulu Plus (which is more TV focused) or Amazon Prime (see above).

Gifts for the Big Spenders: Subscriptions $10 a Month and Up

Newshosting

If you have a friend that's a file sharer extraordinaire, whether they've heard about Usenet or not, a great gift would be to get them started with Usenet by purchasing them a subscription to your favorite news provider (in our case, Newshosting). You can grab a 50GB plan for $10.00 a month, or grab an unlimited subscription for $12.95 a month and up for the downloading maniacs. If you'd rather not give a monthly subscription, however, you can always try a one-time payment from someone like Astraweb, who offers 25GB worth of downloading for only $10, or 180 GB for $25.

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PocketSmith

While we're really big fans of budgeting services like Mint, sometimes you need a tool that's better at planning your financial future (and less about looking at your financial past). If you have a friend that could stand to get their finances in order, a subscription to the PocketSmith service could be just what they need. We've detailed some of the features of the free version, but a paid subscription gives you unlimited event categories, 8 calendars and accounts (from the default 2), and can help ou look 10 years into the future. It also has a neat automatic bank feeds feature, which will keep itself updated with any changes made to your bank account. You can grab PocketSmith in two flavors: Premium and Super, for $9.95 a month and $19.95 a month, respectively.

Spotify Premium

Storing MP3s on your computer is so last year. If you know anyone that hasn't jumped on the music streaming bandwagon yet, we recommend grabbing them a Spotify Premium account so they can really see what streaming music can do. Spotify free will get you limited listening to any song in their library, and Spotify Unlimited can remove those barriers—but with Premium, you get streaming straight to your mobile device and an offline mode for playlists, which is killer. If you aren't a Spotify fan, you can gift them a subscription to one of the other great music services out there, like Grooveshark or Rdio.

Lynda

Lastly, while you can always direct your friends to Lifehacker for all sorts of tech-related how-tos, we're pretty big fans of Lynda. It's an online service that has lessons and how-tos on all sorts of subjects, from software like Photoshop and PowerPoint to learning code and more. It's the priciest service on our list, but its well worth the cost if you have something you want to learn well. You can buy a regular subscription for just the lessons, or a premium subscription which includes additional exercises (if your friend is the type of person that needs examples and extra practice). Hit the link below to check it out.